Call for papers

Special issue of Asian Journal of English Language Teaching
Theme: Learning and Teaching English in the Chinese EFL Context

Asian Journal of English Language Teaching (AJELT) invites submissions for a special theme issue to be published in 2002 focusing on "Learning and Teaching of English in the Chinese EFL Context."

Chinese EFL learners and their input-poor learning context can arguably represent the core of Asia's EFL learning community and the Confucian culture of learning. Recent decades have also witnessed a surprising number of highly successful EFL learners and professionals being produced in China. However, it is not an overstatement to say that the field of applied linguistics and second language acquisition has been long on assumptions and short on empirical evidence when it comes to the Chinese learner. This special issue thus attempts to bring into perspective the Chinese learner, the Chinese EFL context, and the EFL learning task through data-driven research. It is hoped that a close scrutiny of this unique configuration of learner, task, and context can contribute to the understanding of both EFL in the Chinese context and second language acquisition in general.

Possible topics include but are not limited to the following:

• The Chinese learning culture or cross-cultural studies
• Motivation and other affective factors
• Learning styles and learning strategies
• Teaching of English: theories and practices
• Curriculum development
• Evaluation and testing
• Teacher training
• Computer assisted language learning (CALL)

Along with full-length articles and reports of ongoing projects, reviews of books and/or multimedia materials that shed light on the Chinese EFL learner are also invited.

Interested contributors should send an e-mail of intent with an abstract of 200 words by 31 August 2001 to the guest editor. In addition, please include the following items in your email: title of the manuscript, author's (or authors') name(s), the main author's full mailing address, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, fax and phone numbers. Full submission guidelines for AJELT can be obtained at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ajelt/vol10/subguid.htm